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U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100

U.S. Department of War · 253 pages · text by OCR

This U.S. Air Force compilation, released by the U.S. Department of War, holds numbered checklists and survey sheets for flying object incidents 1 through 100. It covers sightings by officers, test pilots and civilians at Muroc Army Air Field on 7 and 8 July 1947, and sightings by Portland, Oregon police on 4 July 1947. It also includes fireballs seen over California, Nevada and Oregon on 30 December 1947, a Houston fireball, and Finnish reports from January 1948.

From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: United States. Includes a "Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects" that contains details about the incident. Many summaries also include witness lists or statements and other narrative reports or descriptions.

  • p. 8 …all types of aircraft since 1943 and never in my life have I seen anything such…
  • p. 31 …A former vice president, he said the object was unliveable and never seen. He thought it…
  • p. 57 …She mentioned that she had never seen that before, so we stopped to look and listen…
  • p. 149 …I think it was a flying saucer as I have never seen anything equal to it…
  • p. 171 …he had seen shooting stars before but never had seen anything to compare with it) nor…
  • p. 189 …Witness states he never observed a comet which acted in this manner and was of the…
  • p. 206 …middle-aged man The boys stated that they had never before seen one of the discs.
1. Date 4 Aug 47

2. Timo 1600

3. Location Boston, Mets

1. Bank of observer Alphens B. Powell, Capt of PA Airways, Inc. Walter I. White, Navigator

5. Occupation of observer Crew of Pan Amer Constitution

6. Address of observer 28 Redwood Road, New Hyde Park, Long Island

7. Place of observation Approximately midway between Everett, Mass and Bedford Radio Bescon.

11. Number of objects 2

9. Distance of object from observer 1 mile away

10. Timo in sight 30 seconds

11. altitude 7,800 ft

12. Spcod 175 KH

13. Direction of flight easterly - approx $ 1 1 0^{\circ} $ magnetic

21. Tactics N/S

15. Sound N/S

16. Size 15 ft long, 2-3 feet in depth

17. Color deep gold

18. Shape elliotical

19. Oder dotootod N/S

20. Apparent construction N/S

21. Exhaust trails None

22. Weather conditions 5/10 scattered cumulus with tops 1000 Visibility: 10 mi.

23. Effect on clouds N/3

24. Skotohos or photographs None

25. Narner of disappearance Lost in clouds

26. Romarks: (over)

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Report, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 253 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.